The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between Cuba,United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold war in October 1962.

The United States found traces of Missiles in Cuba which is the closest the Cold War got to a Nuclear Conflict.

The Crisis came to a close when John F. Kennedy secretly decided to take all of the missiles out of Italy and Turkey in exchange to take them out of Cuba.

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Kennedy signing the Cuba Quarantine Proclamation.